UT football: Longhorns slide in AP poll

AUSTIN — One day after Texas coach Mack Brown admitted his team “sputtered” a bit in a 34-7 victory over Wyoming, the Longhorns watched another program speed by in the passing lane of one of the national polls.

UT fell from No. 5 to No. 6 in this week’s AP Top 25, dropping below Oregon. The Ducks were boosted from No. 7 to No. 5 after shredding Tennessee 48-13 on Saturday.

The Longhorns held steady at No. 4 in the USA Today coaches’ poll, which unlike the AP rankings counts in the Bowl Championship Series standings. But the gap between UT and No. 5 TCU shrunk from 120 points to 94.